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And the winner is: The King County, Wash., Metro Transit System has received the Clean Air Excellence Award from the Washington-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for using hybrid buses to reduce emissions. The Austin, Texas, City Hall has ...

And the winner is:

The King County, Wash., Metro Transit System has received the Clean Air Excellence Award from the Washington-basedU.S. Environmental Protection Agency for using hybrid buses to reduce emissions.

TheAustin, Texas, City Hall has received a Design Award from Schaumburg, Ill.-basedConcrete Reinforcing Steel Institute for its site-cast concrete structure.

The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County’s Puente Hills Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station has received a Gold Award from Silver Spring, Md.-basedSolid Waste Association of North America for the facility’s energy conservation design.

The Orange County, Calif., Water District has been named Client of the Year by theOrange County Chapter of the Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California for its leadership in managing the county’s groundwater basin.

Escondido, Calif., has received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Washington-basedGovernment Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its Comprehensive Financial Report.

Getting There

Albuquerque, N.M., has contracted with Omaha, Neb.-basedHDR, an architectural, engineering and consulting firm, to manage and engineer the city’s Modern Streetcar Project. Also, theMissouri Department of Transportation has contracted with the company to provide overall quality assurance in the construction of the new interchange of Interstates 170 and 340 in St. Louis.

The Fort Worth, Texas, Transportation Authority and San Francisco-basedURS have contracted with Naples, Fla.-basedNeighborhood America to gather public comment on traffic congestion in Tarrant County, Texas.

The Memphis Area Transit Authority has contracted with Reston, Va.-basedMAXIMUS to provide fleet management software and an automated fuel system.

The California Department of Transportation has contracted with New York-basedParsons Brinckerhoff to design improvements for a section of State Road 94 in San Diego County.

The New York State Department of Transportation has contracted with New York-basedVollmer to design a deck replacement for the Grand Central Parkway bridge viaduct in Queens.

Plugged in

Omaha and Douglas County, Neb., have contracted with Norfolk, Va.-based CCG Systems to provide fleet maintenance computer software for the Douglas-Omaha Technology Commission.Daytona Beach, Fla., has purchased geographic information system software from Yarmouth, Maine-based DeLorme.Woodbury, Minn., has contracted with Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based HRG Tech Group to implement computer software that will track requests from the public through the city’s Web site, telephone calls and other sources.The Redlands, Calif., Imperial Irrigation District has contracted with locally based ESRI to provide geographic information system computer software.Illinois has contracted with Lynchburg, Va.-based CTA Communications to help reconfigure the state’s 800 MHz radio system for its emergency workers.Clayton County, Ga., has contracted with Rochester, N.Y.-based Pictometry to provide an aerial imaging database.Woodbury, Minn., has contracted with Dubuque, Iowa-based Cartegraph to provide computer software for a city-wide work management system.

Safe at home

The Outagamie County, Wis., Sheriff’s Department has contracted with Castle Hayne, N.C.-basedVisionAIR to provide computer software. Also,Hoke County, N.C., purchased software from the company to provide jail inmate management and fire management.Mecosta County, Mich., also purchased the company’s law enforcement records and inmate management software.

Newton County, Ga., has purchased a $4.5 million, 700/800 MHz radio system for first responders from Lowell, Mass.-basedM/A-COM.

The Chester County, Pa., Department of Emergency Services has purchased a Web-based alert network for emergency workers from Arlington, Va.-basedRoam Secure. Also, theJefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office has contracted with the company for the same system that also provides emergency information to civilians.

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